From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755190Ab0GLNgT (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Jul 2010 09:36:19 -0400 Received: from ottmail.xandros.com ([142.46.212.35]:48932 "EHLO ottmail.xandros.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753355Ab0GLNgS (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Jul 2010 09:36:18 -0400 Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2010 09:38:26 -0400 From: Woody Suwalski To: Lee Jones cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linuxfoundation.org Message-ID: <4C3B1AD2.6060900@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4C3B071D.10505@gmail.com> References: <4C3B071D.10505@gmail.com> Subject: Re: [Upstream] Stop ARM boards crashing with CUPS is loaded x-scalix-Hops: 1 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko/20100317 SeaMonkey/2.0.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII"; format="flowed" Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Lee Jones wrote: > Please find attached a patch which rectifies the following bug. > > When CUPS loads, it tries to load several drivers that it may need. > When one of these drivers, specifically parport_pc is loaded on ARM > based systems, it causes a segmentation fault as the address is not > writable on non-PC based architectures. This code prevents this > driver from being compiled on said architectures. > > Kind regards, > Lee > Not exactly true. Netwinders based on Armc4l SA110 have implemeted Parallel port hardware. It can be used for PP-CDroms and (of course) printing. I do not claim that the platform is of a great importance anymore, but blanket statements to remove RTC or PPort or KBD from ARM are not correct... Woody